Re: 10% price rollback for SPIE Digital Library

[<bill@multi-science.co.uk>]

How many times does it have to be said? Just don't buy off 
publishers who want ludicrously large prices for their journals. 
No title is really must have. What academics really want to do is 
communicate with immediate peers. If the mechanism for that 
communication suddenly disappears, they will find a new one in a 
trice. It is only a variety of vested interests who will argue 
against that self-evident proposition.,

Bill Hughes
Director
Multi-Science Publishing.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hamaker, Charles" <cahamake@uncc.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:11 AM
Subject: RE: 10% price rollback for SPIE Digital Library

> This is evidence that at least one publisher understands the 
> challenges of financing acquisitions for libraries and how 
> serious the issues are for libraries and publishers together. 
> 0% increases are not enough for the extreme situation libraries 
> face.
>
> A May presentation by the Fiscal Research Division of the North 
> Carolina General Assembly in looking at the fiscal outlook over 
> the next few years says that revised consensus numbers suggests 
> if normal long-term growth resumes in 2011-12, then it will be 
> 2013-14 before revenues equal the state budget numbers of 
> 2008-09 again.
>
> http://www.ncleg.net/fiscalresearch/generalfund_outlook/generalfund_outlook.shtml 
> (select Revised Revenue and Budget Outlook, May 6, 2009,)
>
> We are in for a long hard time and as the ICOLC and NERL 
> statements indicate it's time for a major reset of prices. 
> Hopefully SPIE's decision will be an example to other 
> publishers that it's now time to consider significant changes 
> in their pricing models.
>
> Chuck Hamaker